Written by

Jennifer Rubin

The White House's initial defense to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on Obamacare seems to not have been well thought out, to put it mildly. If the White House wants to celebrate the reduction of workers, hours worked and take-home pay, Democrats will have a few corollary problems to address:

1. Obamacare was sold as a means of promoting job mobility, delinking insurance from work. Now the White House says it is delinking workers from work. At the opening of the Budget Committee hearing, Chairman Paul Ryan remarked that "what is particularly troubling is CBO's projection of ...